Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-11-09

Tae picture of Prescott, Arizona
 Gurley street looking vest" is libel on our beautiful town. Instead of the
 stately residences and fine brick busi ness blocks which adorn this street. thii
 picture gives it the appearance of lot
 of rickety, old, weather-beaten shanties.
 Not a sign of business activity or life ol
 any kind is presented in the picture,
 "not even a stray dog," as a gentleman
 remarked this morning, "being visible. Times, it is true, are somewhat dull in
 our town, but the place does not yet
 have the tumble-down, deserted look
 which that alleged picture of Gurley street presents
 FROM SATURDAYS DAILY.
 The Pictorial" was daizy.
 The train was several hours late to- day.
 The hose company has ordered new badges.
 Everybody should go to the concert next week.
 Two car loads of freight arrived on to-day's train.
 Seventeen location notices were filed to-day in the recorders office. Robert Foxall to-day filed location notices for claim in Mint valley. The Bellevue was opened last night with grand ball. We hope it may flourish
 Tom Scholey has accepted position ae bartender in the Prescott Sample rooms.
 Sometimes the dude says clever thing; but generally the best things he gets of are his clothes.
 IL is said the cause of the recent acci- dent, on the Atlantic & Pacific, near Ash Fork, was caused by a rotten boiler.
 Mrs. D. J. Sullivan has just received her first consignment of boys suits. Call and inspect them; they are stylish and very cheap. nov3f
 Hon. A. w. Callen, cold Grizzly," filed fourteen location notices, to-day, in the recorders office. The claims are located in Walnut Grove district
 Mine Host Kendall, iof the Williams House, is making preparations for en- tertaining q number of legal lights at the coming session of the district court.
 man just in from CslifarniA says the idea of that country holding up much longer is simply prepoe,erous. That property in Los Angeles should sell at Broadway prices cannot long be the case. He talks sense.
 Past Master Morris Goldwater, and Master R. \. Fredericks left on this af- ternoon's stage. en route 10 Tombstone, to represent Aztlsn Lodge F. X A. M., at the session of the Grand Lodge, which meets there next Tuesday, November s.
 The art of paper making has reached a point where a tree may be cut down, made into paper, printed with the daily news, and be in the hands of the read CTS thirty-six hours from the time in which it was growing AS a tree.
 A very interesting programme of e1- ercises was given at the schoolhouse, yesterday afternoon, by the "Look-Up" society, under the auspices of the Mothers Society, of Prescott. The ex- erci.es consisted of recitstions, singing, etc. Twenty-four children were en- rolled in the society.
 Professor Thomas is making exten- siye preparations for the coming con- cert. Yesterday, he, in company with Joe Dauphin, went to the Post to attend A rehearsal of the full orchestra. They expressed themselves as wcn pleased with the rendition, and that on next Thureday evening cur music-loving citizens will be furnished with a rare treat.
 Ben Ryhon, proprietor of the Prescott Sample rooms, is renovating that cozy resort by laying. new carpets and the addition of other elegant and suitable furniture. He has made an addition of a new private club room, which will be elegantly furnished, and nothing will be left undone to make the parlors of this place comforts le. The Sample rooms will be conducted as only Ben, with the assistance of Tom Scholey, know how
 It is only a question of time, says young engineer just from India, when Yankee methods will he applied to rail way building and agriculture there. Several railway bridges have already been constructed in that country on American models, and there is a rising school os the young British engineers in India which favors American ideas. The curnbrousness and inconvenience of English rolling stock and the slownese of native labor are beginning to make themselves felt az distractions to the work of civilization. In spite of these drawbacks, the railway mileage has in- creased from 5000 in 1872 to nearly ls,OOO. The grain elevator is soon to be introduced in India, and the im- mense wheat crop can then be brought into competition with that of other countries.
 0uckien'S Arnica Saivo